July 2008
37 posts
hipsters are the "dead end of western... →
Yaaaaawwwwn. This could have been so good. Can’t they get some writers who have at least had an introductory course to media or social theory? Media as the technological extensions of man? McLuhan? Anybody??? I need more than just a passing half-hearted comparison to past “countercultures.”
Funny Gavin McInnes quote though.
Back to reading fashion blogs and working for...
Exxon Mobil reported second-quarter earnings of $11.68 billion Thursday, the...
– The Raw Story | Exxon Mobil has biggest profit ever at $11.68B
Better buy back some more of your stock, assholes.
i’ve heard an A-10 before and the sound is terrifying. it’s hard to...
– so i’ve been in baghdad for the last two months. (4127 views)
slants:
23/6 is making the most excellent Get Your War On into an animated series. I am so goddamn excited about having a whole new time-waster to play with at work. Check out the comic series here.
ZOMBIE MICROBES!!! →
HRO owns Portland
“Don’t you feel like you have met a lot of people who have idealized Portland and Austin as ‘heaven on alt-earth’? Like they imagine settling down with a humble-&-emotionally-connected trophy alt who is done with his/her ‘partying phase’ and ready to start buying well-designed carriages for their newborn babies (lil alts).”
deepseathoughts:
Common...
slants:
The flavor is like a fist!! No explanation needed.
Traditional Santanderean dishes include:
Culonas: Short for Hormigas Culonas...
– Bucaramanga travel guide - Wikitravel
Life is nanotechnology that works.
– Reason Magazine - Forever Young
The robot revolution is finally here. →
Great way to polish that whole reputation as a center for international diplomacy with a nice grant from DARPA.
slants:
So I read the following today:
‘The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded Tufts University a $3.3 million contract to develop T-1000 shape-shifters so they can squeeze under doors and through cracks and shit to kill us all. Part of the...
A cliche of a cliche but still hilarious.
Deontological Coupling
I can’t remember whether or not I posted any of my LA photos to flickr.
yesyesyesyes:
Re: quote below,
The argument coud be made that the act of photgraphy is an act of destruction.
Pressing the shutter button becomes a kind of surrogate memory that ultimately obviates the need for ‘memory’ at all.
When viewed through a camera lens, all experience becomes mediated experience.
An...
good communication is key
f: yo
g: hello
g: hello??
f: hi
g: hi!
g: how are you?
f: brb
Tumtape | vhudy6tx4dik9ol →
You are all going to hell.
Last Night
f: i am talking nate now
g: so apparently he almost died last night
f: waht
f: what????
g: yea, i dunno. apparently he accidentally did heroin.
f: waht????????
g: this is what happens when you are drunk and meet people at mars bar at 4am
LAist: California to Legalize Weed for Everyone →
thank christ for rationality